Mythology has often been used in Cinema to represent morality and the duality of Good versus Evil.
From the Ancient Greeks with their half men half beasts to the Red Indians and Incas with their depictions of men transforming into animals and back into humans again, these themes were and are often still used in films as powerful tools to tell the story of the victory of Good over Evil.
The Medusa with her serpent's head is one of the main characters in the recently released 'Seventh Son'.
The protagonists in the film are men with powers and legacies; men who from birth are aware that their visions of struggle and victory are an indication of a destiny which is their legacy to fulfil.
Although the story of Seventh Son is hardly memorable and I am sure most of us would have forgotten the sequence of scenes and the script within an hour of leaving the screening, it does nonetheless have a lot to offer in terms of entertainment value but also in the sense that this use of Mythology in the film and the characters on both sides of the equation are powerful symbolic icons representing the real struggle between Good and Evil in the real world as much as in Theology and the spiritual realm.
Magic maybe a concept very few understand unless experienced first hand in our daily lives. This can take many forms but the essence of it is seeing an unbelievable or extraordinary manifestation which we can only sometimes understand after deep soul searching and with an objective eye all the while being open to the fact that all things are not always known by human beings or controllable through actions. Some manifestations are living proof that a higher order of existence can guide our mundane lives.
From the point of view of entertainment, the film's visual effects and graphics are strong. The quick sequences depicting movements of the natural elements as well as the combat between the characters are well drawn out and fleshed out with colours and smoothly flow with good editing.
This certainly reminds one of the apprentice film released a while back, in terms of the characters in both movies but this film still has its own identity if not in content at least in visual graphics and effects.
Worth seeing if you are in the mood to be reminded that Fate shows its face to us in its own time giving us each legacies to fulfil.
Be you a seventh son or a first daughter, you may be 'charmed' each in your own way following the path which is yours and meeting other 'charmed' ones on your journey.
And even for those cynics who do not believe in the non physical world, you may still enjoy the pure visual aesthetics of the film.
'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,than are dreamt of in our philosophy' (Hamlet)
From the Ancient Greeks with their half men half beasts to the Red Indians and Incas with their depictions of men transforming into animals and back into humans again, these themes were and are often still used in films as powerful tools to tell the story of the victory of Good over Evil.
The Medusa with her serpent's head is one of the main characters in the recently released 'Seventh Son'.
The protagonists in the film are men with powers and legacies; men who from birth are aware that their visions of struggle and victory are an indication of a destiny which is their legacy to fulfil.
Although the story of Seventh Son is hardly memorable and I am sure most of us would have forgotten the sequence of scenes and the script within an hour of leaving the screening, it does nonetheless have a lot to offer in terms of entertainment value but also in the sense that this use of Mythology in the film and the characters on both sides of the equation are powerful symbolic icons representing the real struggle between Good and Evil in the real world as much as in Theology and the spiritual realm.
Magic maybe a concept very few understand unless experienced first hand in our daily lives. This can take many forms but the essence of it is seeing an unbelievable or extraordinary manifestation which we can only sometimes understand after deep soul searching and with an objective eye all the while being open to the fact that all things are not always known by human beings or controllable through actions. Some manifestations are living proof that a higher order of existence can guide our mundane lives.
From the point of view of entertainment, the film's visual effects and graphics are strong. The quick sequences depicting movements of the natural elements as well as the combat between the characters are well drawn out and fleshed out with colours and smoothly flow with good editing.
This certainly reminds one of the apprentice film released a while back, in terms of the characters in both movies but this film still has its own identity if not in content at least in visual graphics and effects.
Worth seeing if you are in the mood to be reminded that Fate shows its face to us in its own time giving us each legacies to fulfil.
Be you a seventh son or a first daughter, you may be 'charmed' each in your own way following the path which is yours and meeting other 'charmed' ones on your journey.
And even for those cynics who do not believe in the non physical world, you may still enjoy the pure visual aesthetics of the film.
'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,than are dreamt of in our philosophy' (Hamlet)
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